Posts Tagged ‘addiction’

NIH drug and alcohol abuse institutes will work together but not merge

Last Friday, NIH Director Francis Collins issued a statement announcing that plans to merge the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) have been canceled. In the statement, he said: “I have concluded that it is more appropriate for NIH to pursue functional integration, rather than major structural reorganization, to advance substance use, abuse, and addiction-related research.” This decision comes two years after a recommendation by … Read More

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Posted by: Katie Wilkes in New from the NIH
On: Tuesday, November 20, 2012
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PhenX Toolkit adds 43 new Measures; boon for substance abuse researchers

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is promoting the use of the PhenX Toolkit, a resource that allows substance abuse researchers to gather, share, and compare human-subjects data. Forty three new Measures have been added to the Toolkit as part of a larger initiative by the NIDA called, ‘Genetics Data Harmonization,’ whose aim is to promote common measures that can be used by researchers across research fields. According to an NIH notice released earlier … Read More

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Posted by: Taylor St. Clair in New from the NIH, Research Resources
On: Monday, April 30, 2012
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